The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-10-06

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men getting splendidly through. They
see others going mp and themselves going
down, but they keep their patience, aud
their courage, and their Chi stian consist
ency, and after ? while their turn Of sue
cess viii come. The owners of the big
! business will die and their boys will get
/ possession of the business, ard with a
! cigar in their mouth, and full TO the chin
| with the best liquor, and behind a pair OF
/ spanking bays, they will pass every thing
on the turnpike road to temporal and
j eternal perdition. Then the business will
break up and the smaller dealers will have
fair opportunity. Or the spirit of COM
/ tentment aud right feeling will take pos
4 session of the large firm, as recently in the
/ case of the great house of A. 4. Low &
/ Co, and the firm will say: 1--WE have
/ enough money for all our preds. and the
needs Of eur Childrcnl rbv let ulS dissolve
/ business and make way for other men in
/ thu sa:re line" Instead e being startled
/ at solitary instance 81 maEuaninrity,
/ rs in the case last mentioned, il will
/ become a common thing. ! know OF
/ scores of great business hugacs that have
1 had their opportunity 81 vast accumula-
/ ton, anti whc CGght to gait. But perhaps
/ for all The days of tbs generation the
! struggle of small houses To keep alive mr.
| der the overshadowing pressure Of great
houses will continue: therefore, taking
! things as they arc, YOU will lie wise TO
, preserve YOU" equilibrium, and Your
honesty. Fnd Your faith, and throw over
all ,h5 counters, and shelves, and barrels,
and hogsbaadS. aud cotton bales, and rico
casks, the measur ne light OF divine right.
And the Load said unto m" Amos, what Seest
tEuuy And said, plumb lac.
In the same way We need 70 maa sure
our theologie'. All sorts Of religions are
putting forth their pretensons. Some
have n spirituaiistic religion, and their
chief work is with ghosts, and others
religion of political economy proposing to
put sn end 10 human misery hy new
style of taxation. and there is a humans
tartan re-! ion that looks after the body
of men and let's the soul look after Itself,
and there is u legislative religion that
proposes II rcCtifv ali wrongs
by enactment OF hotter laws,
and there * an aesthetic re-
lgion that by rules # exquisite taste
would lift the heart ont of its deformities,
and religions Of all sorts. religions by the
pack, religions by the square fo Il, and re-
( ljEions by tine to1i--aI Of them devices OF
the devil that would take III" heart away
from the only religion That vii! ever effect
Rnythin2 for the human race, and that is
the Stra gh:-up-and. down religion written
in the hook. u}ich begins with Genesis
aud ends with Revelation, the religion OF
the skies, the old religion, the God.given
religion. the everlasting religion, which
saws:
Lor" God above all and Your ncighbOr az
yourself
All religions but the one begin at tho
wrong end, ana in tn wrong pace. Thr
Bible religion demands that we first get
right with God. I, gins NJ tho top and
measures down, while TIE other religions
begin ut the bottom and try to measure
mp, They stand AZ the foot Of the wall,
up to their knees in the mud of human
theory and specu' alton, and have plum
met and string tied fast to it. And they
throw the plummet this way, and break
head there, and throw the plum-
met another way, end break head
there, and then they throw it up, and it
comes down upon their own pate. Fools!
Why will You stand az the foot of the
wall measuring up when you ought to
stand al the top measuring down?
\ fcw days ago | VAS in the country,
thirsty after a long walk. Aud I came
in and my child was blowing soap bub-
blee, and they rolled ont of the cup, blue,
and gold, and creeu, and sparkling, and
beautiful, and orhiculAr, and IN so small
n space never saw mora splendor con-
centrated. But she blew once too often
and all the glory vanished into sudS,
Then turned and tod, glass of plain
water. and was refreshed. And so far
as sou! thirst is concerned, pat against
all the glowing, Glittr~inG soap bubbles of
worldly reform and human speculation,
one drought from the fountain from
under the throne OF God, clear rs crystal.
Glory he to God for the religion that
drops from above, not coming up from be-
Meath
Nv text gives lie grand opportunity Of
saving useful Vo"l to al young mon
who are now forming habits for a lifetime.
OF what u%e t. q St0nemaSon on q brick
layer is a plumb lime? Why not bald the
wall by the uuaid-d eye aud hand? Be-
cause they are Insufficient, because if there
be a DETECTION in the wall It can not fur
Their on la corrected. Because 10y the law
of gray itation a wall mast Le straight in
order to he 81 mluetricHl and safe.
A Young man is in dange" of getting
defect in his wal of character that MAJ
never lie corrected. One Of the best
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at sixty years IF age, though he had not
since twenty oue veal -hcfore which he
had been dissipatcd- touched intoxicating
liquor until that particular carorsal that
took him or. MOI feeling we'll in street
on :. hot simmer dIy, he stepped into n
drug store, Just 2 vow and | would have
done, and asked for n dose of something to
make him feel bette. \ nd there was al
cohol in The dose. and that one drop
aroused the old appetite. and he entered
the first iQtor store. and stayed thnre until
thoroughly under the power OF rum. He
entered his home a ravinG maniac, his
wife and daughters fleeing from his pres
ence, until lie was taken to the City Hos
/ pital to die. The combustLle material Of
early habit bad lain quiet for nearly forty
| years, and that orc spark ignited the con-
/ migration.
Remember that the wall NAV be one
hundred feet high, and yet 4 detection
one foot from the foundation affects the
entire structure. And if you live one hun
dred years ard do right the last eighty
wears, YOU may, nevertheless, do some
tning at twenty years OF age that will
damage all your earthly existence. All
vCu who have built houses for yourself or
others, am | not right in saving to these
Young men, you can not build wall so
high as to he indep ,nlent of the character
Of It's foundation? \ man before thirty
years of age may commit enough sin to
last him lifetime. \ cat that has killed
one pigeon can not lie cured. Keep it from
killing the first pigeon.
Now, John, or George, or Charles, or
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